Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partly because it is never too busy to see people, the Scripps-Howard Press has become the biggest, richest and most influential paper in Cleveland. Its red carpet is always out for readers, whether they come with a complaint, a hillbilly band or (it has happened) leading a bear, a goat or an elephant. They also bring in plenty of stories...
Samples of FRB's carefully gathered evidence: Transamerica controls about 80% of all deposits in Nevada, 39% in Oregon, 42% in California, including 100% in 13 counties. The complaint was based on more than a general charge of the Brandeisian sense of bigness. According to the complaints of scores of bought-out banks, Giannini played unfair ball by hiring away their top officers and paying fantastic prices to their stockholders...
...renewal of the feud between Giannini and FRB's Marriner Eccles, whose family's banking empire in the Rockies (TIME, May 10) stands smack in the way of A.P.'s ambitions to expand eastward. It was bigger than a personal feud. The board's complaint was unanimously endorsed by its seven members. Its result might well be a crucial test of one of the strongest Strong Men in U.S. financial history...
...Trusteeship Council faced a complaint from St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, London (a Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) concerning the Fon (king) of Bikom, in the British Cameroons. Missionaries had reported the Fon to have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...
Burned Up. In St. Louis, Eugene G. Fitzgerald won his divorce. His complaint: she criticized his cooking...